[FIXED] Is it possible to pass a password in Maven Deploy in the command line?

Issue

This is the way it currently works, and it's the Maven Deploy Plugin Usage

pom.xml

[...]
  <distributionManagement>
    <repository>
      <id>internal.repo</id>
      <name>MyCo Internal Repository</name>
      <url>Host to Company Repository</url>
    </repository>
  </distributionManagement>
[...]

settings.xml

[...]
    <server>
      <id>internal.repo</id>
      <username>someUser</username>
      <password>somePassword</password>
    </server>
[...]

and what I'm trying to achieve is finding a way in which the username and password are typed in at the command line. to achieve mvn deploy -someUser -somePassword

Solution

The settings.xml is considered personal, so for that reason the username+password are stored in the (user-)settings.xml. So in general there's no reason to pass them as argument. (btw, passwords can be stored encrypted here) The maven-deploy-plugin has no option to pass them via commandline. However, I've seen hacks like:

<username>${internal.repo.username}</username>

And now you can do -Dinternal.repo.username=someUser

Answered By - Robert Scholte